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BOOK REVIEW: Elizabeth Saintsbury, George MacDonald: A Short Life

BibleMesh, Book Reviews, By Shane Walker / October 28, 2022 October 28, 2022

Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing, 1987, 152 pgs. Summary: A non-academic biography of the writer George MacDonald (1824-1905). MacDonald was a Scottish fiction writer whose works of Christian fantasy influenced C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton. He appears as the protagonist’s guide to heaven in Lewis’ The Great Divorce. The book traces MacDonald’s major geographic movements from birth to …

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A Path to Repentance: “From a Palace to a Pasture”

BibleMesh / October 24, 2022 October 24, 2022

28 All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar. 29 Twelve months later, as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, 30 he said, “Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty? 31 “The words were still on his lips when …

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Clear Your Desk!

BibleMesh, By John Benton / October 23, 2022 October 23, 2022

When a pastor is forced out We tend to think of America as the place of the “hire and fire” culture – sadly we have the same kind of culture in some UK churches. A 2008 US study reckoned that around 23% of pastors have either had their contracts terminated or been forced to resign. …

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Learn to Read, Learn to Think—C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)

BibleMesh / October 19, 2022 September 21, 2023

For two decades after the end of the Second World War, C. S. Lewis was one of the most public advocates of Christianity in England. He was both a popular author and a famous academic in Oxford, where he spent most of his career. To a generation that survived the horrors of war, Lewis recommended the edifying …

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Christ Is Sovereign Over Your Cubicle

BibleMesh, By Gabe Magan / October 18, 2022 October 18, 2022

Early in my Christian life, the story of Stephen the martyr fascinated me. It could have been the idea of a young man standing up for his faith against harsh opponents. Or his willingness to die for his faith as the gospel went out through the early church. Or his ability to summarize the whole …

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Be Tender-Hearted and Thick-Skinned: How Humility Protects Pastors from Pastoral Burnout

BibleMesh, By Aaron Menikoff / October 12, 2022 October 12, 2022

They wanted to talk about my preaching. I hadn’t been at the church very long, but they had some concerns. A few single women recently left the church, and these deacons were convinced it was my fault. My sermons, they insisted, must be too “masculine.” I didn’t know what they meant—I still don’t! I certainly …

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BOOK REVIEW: Elizabeth Saintsbury, George MacDonald: A Short Life

A Path to Repentance: “From a Palace to a Pasture”

Clear Your Desk!

Learn to Read, Learn to Think—C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)

Christ Is Sovereign Over Your Cubicle

Be Tender-Hearted and Thick-Skinned: How Humility Protects Pastors from Pastoral Burnout

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